detect default alarm clock application alarms

Question

I would like to know if there is a way (probably a system broadcast) to know that the alarm clock default application is now start ringing.

if not - I\'ll be satisfied a

Answer 1

If I understand you right, you want to check which applications use the Alarm Manager class, If that is the case then you can do it by allowing your application to monitor the log cat, once done you will definitely get to know which applications are using alarm. At-least this should work at boot time. You can create a new thread to running the logcat(without the option -d) in the background. Also make sure that you are adding the required permissions in the Manifest for this to work.

Screen-shot of boot time:

Update: LogCat after setting an Alarm for 9:56pm using the default system clock

After coming to know of OP's requirements through an update in the original question, I tried to set an alarm for a specific time and checked LogCat for the same time and the result is logged below with time details and events in chronological order:

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